Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Kamarhati
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Kamarhati Location in West Bengal
Coordinates: 22°40′0″N88°22′0″E / 22.66667°N 88.36667°E / 22.66667; 88.36667 Coordinates: 22°40′0″N88°22′0″E / 22.66667°N 88.36667°E / 22.66667; 88.36667
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Constituency No.	112
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	Dum Dum
Electorate (year)	160,967 (2011)
Government
• Incumbent MLA	Madan Mitra
• Political Party	AITC

Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 112 Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 1 to 16 and 21 to 35 of Kamarhati municipality. ^[1]

Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1967	Kamarhati	Radhika Ranjan Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [2]
1969		Radhika Ranjan Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [3]
1971		Radhika Ranjan Banerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [4]
1972		Pradip Kumar Palit	Indian National Congress [5]
1977		Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1982		Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1987		Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1991		Santi Ghatak	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1996		Santi Ghatak	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
2001		Manash Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
2006		Manash Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
2011		Madan Mitra	All India Trinamool Congress [13]
2016		Manash Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021		Madan Mitra	All India Trinamool Congress

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Kamarhati

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Madan Mitra	73,491	51.17
	BJP	Anindya Raju Banerjee	38,235	26.64
	CPI(M)	Sayandeep Mitra	28,138	19.62
Turnout
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Kamarhati constituency ^{[13] [14]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Manas Mukherjee	62,194	45.09	+6.18
	AITC	Madan Mitra	57,996	42.04	-15.92
	BJP	Krishanu Mitra	10,797	+7.83	6.50
	NOTA	None of the above	2,623	1.90	+1.90
	Independent	Manas Mukherjee	1,009	0.73
	Independent	Subhojit Dutta	923	0.67
	BSP	Rekha Devi	848	0.61
	CPI(ML)L	Archana Ghatak	399	0.29
	PDS	Santanu Chatterjee	352	0.26
Turnout			1,37,943	74.85	-4.59
	CPI(M) gain from AITC		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Madan Mitra of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kamarhati constituency ^{[13] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Madan Mitra	74,112	57.96	+17.25#
	CPI(M)	Manas Mukherjee	49,758	38.91	-17.49
	BJP	Shikha Sarkar	1,699	1.33
	Independent	Sushanta Dey	1,079
	CPI(ML)L	Nabendu Dasgupta	739
	PDS	Tarak Bhadra	479
Turnout			127,866	79.44
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	34.74#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Manas Mukherjee of CPI(M), won from the Kamarhati assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Subhrangshu Bhattacharya of Trinamool Congress in 2006 ^[12] and Chittaranjan Bag of Trinamool Congress in 2001. ^[11] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Santi Ghatak of CPI(M) had won it in 1996 ^[10] and in 1991 ^[9] defeating his nearest rivals Sambhunath Dutta of Congress in 1996 and Salil Biswas of Congress in 1991. Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee of CPI(M) had won this seat in 1987, 1982, and in 1977defeating Ajoy Ghosal of Congress in 1987, ^[8] Purnendu Bimal Dutta of Congress in 1982 ^[7] and Jayanta Chandra Sen of Congress in 1977. ^{[6] [16]}

1967-1972

Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972. ^[5] Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, ^[4] 1969 ^[3] and in 1967. ^[2] Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
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12. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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